Fandom, Art, & Tea

Overall, I personally hate being micromanaged. I like when my 'employers' trust me to get my work done, and in general I perform better when I don't feel like I'm being hounded. This kind of principle I try to apply to others I work with... keeping an "open door" so they can ask me at any time for assistance, but otherwise letting them control their own working paths to accomplish what they need to do.

Every week (Mondays) I send out a "job assignment" listing, which includes myself in it, so no one can say 'oh I didn't know I was assigned to X project in Y capacity' so there IS a reminder sent out.

Gets me so frustrated when I end up having to "chase" them down (via email since we all work remote) to remind them again and again to get something done/submitted/returned. Especially frustrating when I'm balancing my own work, life, and responsibilities to the best of my own ability and feeling like maybe I'm not contributing as much as I could (even though I know, in a way, I am) just to see others on the team not even seemingly putting in the basic effort.

It makes me feel disrespected to a degree - as professional and with my time - to have to go after a colleague who simply isn't doing their job. Two in particular I'm dealing with right now are older than I am (by about 5-8 years, so they're in their mid-upper 30s) and have been in the professional spheres longer, yet still can't seem to manage themselves as they should at their level.

Sure, there are factors in their own lives that can create issues, and normally I would understand that, but there's a limit to my patience. There's also gotta be a boundary somewhere because if they cannot perform the work due to something else going on they shouldn't accept the job! When someone accepts the job they should do said job...not waffle about it. We're all independent contractors so we work what we want to work on and can decline a job if we feel it'll interfere with our lives negatively.

I hate to create a tension, but when I've been wanting a response for several days and hear nothing or realize after back-checking that someone hasn't engaged with part of their work for a week or so, it leaves me no choice. Had to get our 'employer' involved to discuss how I must proceed on a project that NEEDS activity from these two as I'm the only one so far involved.

PLUS next week (starting Monday) we're having an in-person team retreat so I have to see these two face-to-face and I'm a little less thrilled on that part.